There comes with each new year, the associated expectations of better
results or rewards. These are usually the expectation put upon us by others; by society or that by which we have been
conditioned. It is time to break the molds that bind us and be who we are or want to be. ~ L.L. Abbott

A Hopi Elder said that he is dying and with him will die the
old ways. But he doesn't care because the old ways don't work anymore. I believe that the old ways cannot
die--because it is in the old ways that the truth will be found. ~L.L. Abbott

Cultivate peace first in the garden
of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally.
Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. ~ Sivananda

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. ~Lord Byron

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. -- Cicero

Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~Aristotle

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

Words are good, but there is something better, The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which
we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit. No one knows what he is doing
while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. ~Goethe

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken. ~Proverbs

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. ~Buddha

The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere,
nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right. ~Mencius

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you
wrong. ~ Zoroaster

It is a wholesome
and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
~Rachel Carson

Man has responsibility, not power. ~Tuscarora Proverb

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had
left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something
malevolent and bottomless. ~Willa Cather

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. ~Anne Swetchine

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own
brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~HH The Dalai Lama

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~Philo

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments. ~The Talmud

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived
again. ~Maya Angelou

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is
the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.~Crowfoot

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find
perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the
truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki

Footfalls echo in the memoryDown the passage which we did not
takeTowards the door we never opened ~T.S. Eliot

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may
also be the beginning.

~Ivy Baker Priest

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!Look to this Day!For
it is Life, the very Life of Life.In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence.The
Bliss of Growth,The Glory of Action,The Splendor of Beauty;For Yesterday is but a Dream,And To-morrow is only
a Vision;But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.Look
well therefore to this Day!Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! ~Kalidasa

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in
one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells,
constellations. ~Anais Nin

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone,
the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

A very great vision is needed

and the man who has it

must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.
~Crazy Horse

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe
they are free." –Goethe

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on
arriving." -Lau Tsu

"If we do not like what a future looks like, all we have to do is change our thought patterns and
start taking better care of our TOTAL self, as Life is just what we make it." -David Little Elk

"I do not always come as a trickster.Sometimes
it is necessary to remind others to enjoy life.To remember to play and lick another's nose!" -Coyote Speak, Spirit Talk

"Usually when the distractions of daily life deplete our
energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. This is the definition of insanity."
— Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases;
neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate
the available choices, to argue over them - and then, the opportunity to choose." –C. Wright Mills

"Create your own myth" -Rumi

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who
thinks differently." –Rosa Luxemberg>

"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately
enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world." —
Sheila Graham

"Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality." –Emily Dickinson

"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire

Uttered or unexpressed

The motion of a hidden fire

That trembles in the breast."

–James Montgomery

"If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it he will find it." –Sitting
Bull

"Who soweth good seed shall surely reap

The year grows rich as it groweth old

And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!"

–Julia Ripley Dorr

"Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence,
confidence, and justice." –Spinoza

"We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining
the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around
the world." –Margaret Mead

"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world,
a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
–Cornelia Otis Skinner

"We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the
intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life
experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal
values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate
culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations." –Wangari
Maathai

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." –Ralph
Waldo Emerson

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will
understand only what we are taught." –Baba Dioum

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that
falls on them unless they act." –G.K. Chesterton

"We are each
other's harvest ... we are each other's magnitude and bond." ~Gwendolyn Brooks

"Conformity is the enemy of thought and the jailer of freedom." --John F. Kennedy

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to
climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance
I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long
walk is not yet ended." --Nelson Mandela

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever
we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." --Chief Seattle

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare
you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." --R.I. Fitzhenry

"When you have found your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different
doors and to those who are still in the hall." --C.S. Lewis

"Focusing our attention-daily and hourly-not on what is wrong, but on what we
love and value, allows us to participate in the birth of a better future, ushered in by the coices we make each and every
day." --Carol Pearson

"The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstance and to choose one's own way." --Viktor Frankl

"Sooner or later, people who want to see are going to open up their hearts and
their eyes, and they're going to notice that a lot of incredible things can happen when people are given chances." --Julieanne
Krone

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,
the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. --Anne Lamott

When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into
a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope. --Henri Nouwen

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. --Mother Teresa

"I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power
over it." --Maya Angelou

"Man's main task is to give birth to himself." --Erich Fromm

Wisdom is a science by which we discriminate between things spiritually good and evil.
It is the science of sciences, for alone, it can understand the value, the true price, the real uses, the danger, and the
potentialities of the soul. --Joubert

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found. --Sufi
Proverb

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception
and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. --Alice Walker

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
--Francis Bacon

"What is Love? Gratitude.

What is hidden in our chests? Laughter.

What else? Compassion." --Rumi

"We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true and serious." —
Brenda Ueland

"Compassion is not religious business,

it is human business,

it is not luxury,

it is essential for our own peace and mental stability,

it is essential for human survival." --Dalai Lama

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"The firey moments of a passionate experience are moments of
wholeness and totality." --Anais Nin

"We must become the change we want to see."-- Gandhi

"We have every opportunity in life to have things different.... If I have one remaining wish
to be fulfilled it is that one day my people will stand up as one person and be counted; that they will call back their
pride and say, "no more." --Fools Crow

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps
never have been seen." - Robert Bresson

"In fear, the brain starves the heart of its bravest blood." --Kall

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin

"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." --William Blake, Auguries
of Innocence

"Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet." --George
Leonard

"This new millennium will usher in an age of harmony or it will bring the end of life as we know
it. Starvation, war and toxic waste have been the hallmark of the Great Myth of Progress and Development that ruled the last
millennium. To us, as caretakers ... falls the responsibility of turning back the powers of destruction. We have come to a
time and place of great urgency. The fate of future generations rests in our hands. We must understand the two ways we are
free to follow, as we choose the positive way or the negative way the spiritual way or the material way. It's our own choice--each
of ours and all of ours." -- Chief Arvol Looking Horse

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's
the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed." --SENECA

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." --Thucydides, funeral
speech for Pericles

"Perfect courage consists in doing that without witnesses, which it would be capable of doing
before all the world." --LaRochefoucauld\216

"To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage." --Confucius Analects

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we
cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." --Maya Angelou

"Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a
light inside of you." — Judith Jamison